James, WillHOME RANCH New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. A fine, very fresh copy in a near fine and bright dust jacket with some very shallow chips from the spine crown and foot. Will James. This copy has both the Scribner seal and the "A". Neat ink gift inscription on the front endpaper; "Bill / from / Helen / Christmas-1935." Neat bookseller tiny sticker to extreme bottom right of front pastedown (Sante Fe). A very bright solid copy with a 'Will James Bookmark" laid in. Made for this book, measures 3 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, printed on yellow stock with illustrations and, on one side, a 'letter-like' message from the author is printed (handwriting style), and, Will James -35. The opposite side of the bookmark has a bibliography, illustrations by the author, and the publisher name at the bottom.

VAN DINE, S.S.THE GARDEN MURDER CASE. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935., New York - First edition. Former owner's name on front pastedown sheet, completely hidden by the dust jacket flap, else fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with some minor professional restoration to spine ends and corners. While attending the running of one of America's great handicap horse races, Philo Vance, who is there playing the ponies, hears a shot and is the first to discover the body. His investigation leads him into the world of "hay burners," book-makers, betting, jockeys, and handicapping. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Connelly, Marc"The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, 1935. Edges rumpled, staining, especially to front wrapper, few edge nicks; apart from soil to first three or four pages, internally clean.. 4to, 119 mimeograph pages, brad bound in pale blue wrappers, stamped "Complete" and with the MGM Script Dept label on front. Very early version of the screen adaptation of Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel -- it would also propel her to the Nobel Prize for Literature. Connelly (whose name is misspelled as "Connolly" on the front wrapper) was among the early writers to attempt the adaptation from the stage version. There were some twenty writers ultimately involved before the film, directed by Sidney Franklin (with an uncredited assist from Victor Fleming) and starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, opened in 1937. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in most major categories, including Best Picture and Director, and won two: one for Luise Rainer as Best Actress (it was the second of Rainer's back-to-back Oscars, a feat unmatched for many years and which led ironically to the abrupt end of her film career -- she would live on in Europe until 2014, when she died at age 104) and one for cinematographer Karl Freund. This is an early, and rather rough, shooting script. On a few pages there are pencil annotations in a mixture of German and English. We have not been able to compare handwriting to determine whether it might be that of Rainer or Freund.

George Washington CarverAs director of part of the Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver writes a heartfelt letter to his first polio patient, a former student at Tuskegee Tuskegee, Alabama: , August 1, 1935. Tuskegee, Alabama, August 1, 1935. 8.5" x 11". "Typed Letter Signed â€

Carlisle, D.T.The Belvidere Hounds New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. First edition, one of 1250 copies. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Original pictorial boards, tan cloth spine, a fine copy in the original printed glassine wrapper ("very rare" - Frazier), with slightest chipping at edges. First edition, one of 1250 copies. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 4to. In Dust Jacket. A splendid copy of this book of indescribably delightful cartoons of an old-guard pack of hounds, originally appearing in the pages of The Sportsman magazine. Siegel 87; Frazier C-1-a. Provenance: Don Frazier

Mais, S.P.B., Charles Graves & D.I. Fraser HarrisThrice Welcome Southern Railway of England London 1935 - 16mo. First edition. Original printed paper wraps. Stapled. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. A vignette at the start of each of the three sections and a small engraving on the title page of a beach with white cliffs and a lighthouse. Colour folding map at rear showing the Southern Railway network. Light tanning to spine and with just a hint of foxing to covers and end papers. The staples are rusted but holding. Near fine. The crown and sceptre paper was commissioned by the Curwen Press for Heals in 1935 and reused for this pamphlet. The booklet was produced for the benefit of overseas visitors to the Royal Jubilee. 'Welcome to England, the land of your fathers'! Fortunately the printed invitation to obtain more information has not been torn out (as it recommends) and handed to a ticket collector. Scarce. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

George Washington CarverAs director of part of the Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver writes a heartfelt letter to his first polio patient, a former student at Tuskegee Tuskegee, Alabama, August 1, 1935. 8.5" x 11". "Typed Letter Signed "G. W. Carver", 1 page, 8.5" x 11". Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, August 1, 1935. Addressed to Floyd Anderson with original postmarked envelope. Lightly toned with folds from mailing. Fine condition. Anderson was Carver's first patient at the Tuskegee Institute. A year earlier, on August 28, 1934, Carver had written to Floyd, in part, "Some time dear, I wish you write me a brief story of your case, and how the treatment has benefitted you. Dear, you are my first patient and it would be such a treasure to have it from you ..." This letter further reveals the deep bond between the patient and Carver when he writes, in part, "I had begun to grow a bit uneasy as to just how you were getting on ... I am not surprised that you are developing into a radio expert, and that they are keeping you busy with repairs. This will give you something to do, bring in a little necessary cash, which, strange to say, most boys need, and what is more important still fit you for life's great problems by giving you something tangible to do at all times ... you are nonetheless my boy, even though I do not get to see you often.""

Gea Augsbourg, Jean CocteauLe vie de Darius Milhaud en images Paris, R-A Correa not dated but probably published in 1935 - 3800 Edition of 155 copies including 42 illustrations by Géa Augsbourg. Copy on papier Vélin including also two original ink drawings signed by the artist on frontispiece. Copy in near perfect conditions excluding just a minor sprain on top of left edge of cover. Spine lightly damaged. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

ELIOT, T. S.Murder in the Cathedral London: Faber and Faber, 1935. 8vo. 87pp. Original purple cloth; later slipcase. A pre-publication presentation copy, inscribed by Eliot on the title: "Inscribed for Dr. John Carroll Perkins by the author T. S. Eliot 11.vi.1935" (publication of its 3000 copies was two days later on June 13th). Rev. Perkins was minister of King's Chapel, First Unitarian Church of Boston, the oldest church in the USA, from 1926 to 1933, and was well known in Eliot's society. Upon his death, Eliot wrote in his condolence letter to Perkins' wife Edith that he could express "what you know already, and what must have been said already by many friends: what a good and beautiful person Uncle John [Perkins] was, and how much loved he was. Like every one else who knew him, I shall continue to cherish every memory of his very Christian soul, of essential integrity and innocence... His own patience and humility made one rather ashamed, and his readiness to see people at their best" (The Letters, Vol 6). Mrs. Perkins was Eliot's hostess in Chipping Camden each summer from 1934 to 1939, and the Perkins' were instrumental in raising Emily Hale -- T.S. Eliot's early infatuation -- after her mother's illness. Gallup A29b. Lack dust jacket, front hinge cracked, some toning to boards, pencilings in text presumably by Perkins.

ISHERWOOD, ChristopherMR. NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS Hogarth Press 1935 - First edition. Original green cloth in pictorial yellow dustwrapper. A very good copy with the usual toning to the spine and some foxing to the endpapers in a very good dustwrapper indeed which just shows a little wear to the spine ends and tanning to the spine. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Trial; Supreme Court; United StatesUnited States of America, Petitioner v William M Butler, Et Al. 1935 - Documentary Record of Owens v. Butler, A Supreme Court Case that Invalidated an Important New Deal Program [Trial]. [Supreme Court, United States]. United States of America, Petitioner V. William M Butler, Et Al. Receivers of Hoosac Mills Corp., Rickert Rice Mills, Inc., Petitioner V. Rufus W. Fontenot, Individually and as Acting United States Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Louisiana. Record. Briefs. Oral Argument of George Wharton Pepper. Opinions [1935-1936] [spine title]. Washington, DC, 1935-1936. 19 items, various paginations. Folding tables. Pamphlets in wrappers bound in cloth, gilt title to spine, bound-in typewritten table of contents. Some rubbing to extremities with minor wear to corners, faint vertical crease through spine. Minor edgewear and a few tears to folding tables, internally clean. $1,500. * Assembled by an unknown attorney or law clerk, the 19 items in this volume, a 2-part transcript, 15 briefs, an oral argument and the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts form a documentary record of Owens v. Butler [297 U.S. 1 (1936)] the case that brought about the demise of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933. Part of Roosevelt's New Deal, this was a Federal law that aimed to raise the value of crops by paying farmers and ranchers to reduce production. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies that processed farm products. This led to a series of seven suits by processors, who believed they were being taxed unfairly. The most important of these was Owens v. Butler. As framed by the plaintiff's lawyers, it asserted the right of a taxpayer to question the validity of a Federal tax. The Court decided in favor of Owens, ruling that the taxes instituted under the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act were unconstitutional under the Tenth Amendment. As argued by Justice Roberts, the tax was not valid because it was established in conjunction with coercive contracts with proceeds earmarked for the benefit of farmers complying with the prescribed conditions. The court also held that the basic premise of the act, paying a farmer to produce less to manipulate prices, went beyond the powers of the national government. The issues raised by Owens v. Butler were addressed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which continue. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Kohts N. (Nadia)Infant Ape and Human Child; instincts, emotions, play, habits. OFFERING: An extraordinary specimen of the first edition with a pre-publication presentation for Dr. Arnold Gesell and preserved additions mounted on blank pages. IMPORTANCE: The work is the first comprehensive report on Kohts' findings and is a primatology classic, esteemed for its extraordinary suite of photographs; "these particular pictures are little short of classic and would have delighted Darwin." [Dr. Arnold Gesell] Based on her groundbreaking observations comparing the behavior of Roody, her son with Joni, a home-raised young chimpanzee, Kohts demonstrated that there are profound differences in cognitive development for language and gesture between human and chimpanzee. Her testing paralleled the work of Wolfgang Köhler, as "they independently devised early cognitive testing methodologies." [Frans B.M. de Waal] EDITION NOTE: The first edition, Russian, except title on cover and title page in Russian and English, and with a 72 pages summary in English, including detailed contents and plate descriptions. RARITY: Rare. A worldwide institution search outside of Russia finds 17 holdings, including the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Yale, and the Royal College of Surgeons, University of Edinburgh. NADEZHDA NIKOLAEVNA LADYGINA-KOHTS: [1889-1963]: Pioneer cognitive psychologist, Director of the Zoological Laboratory, Darwin Museum, Moscow, Lecturer in Comparative Psychology, State University, Moscow. Kohts was the first researcher to home raise a young chimpanzee (1913-16). Her early advocacy for advanced cognition capabilities for primates has proven correct and she was the first to demonstrate color vision in chimpanzees. She maintained an extensive correspondence with Robert Yerkes from 1924 and he visited her in Moscow in 1929. Yerkes encouraged her to publish and I think it highly probable that he made the long distance introductions, speaking to Gesell about Kohts, and, in turn, speaking to Kohts about Gesell, encouraging her to contact him. (Gesell consulted with Yerkes on his comparative development table for the Rhesus macaque and Homo sapiens. [Miles, pp. 69-70] And the Yerkes-Gesell correspondence and association through the Institute of Human Relations is well documented.) ARNOLD GESELL [1880-1961]: The preeminent American child psychologist of his day, he was the founder of what is now the Yale Child Study Center and initiated the use of cinematography in child development studies in 1924, publishing "The Mental Growth of the Pre-School Child" in 1925. He would go on to use film and photography media to pursue many lines of comparative research, to document developmental milestones for children from infancy to adolescence. His magnum opus, "An Atlas of Infant Behavior" with 3,200 'action photographs' was published in 1934. SIX ADDITIONS: some mounted, those by Kohts in purple ink (her favorite color). 1) Presentation: made in English and written with strong flourishes, dated July 12, 1935, about one month before publication. 2) Signed Letter: A signed, typed letter in English from Kohts to Gesell, her signature with an extended upper stem flourish, 13 lines, December 14, 1935 date, stamped heading-Zoopsycologiches Laboratorium Moscow, requesting his views on her research; "Herewith I am forwarding to you by parcel post the product of many years of my labor, the book." ... "I am eagerly looking forward to your highly valuable comment, especially in respect of that part which deals with child psychology." 3) Mailing Envelope: with typed addresses, Gesell's delivery address at the Institute of Psychology, Yale and the return address for the State Darwin Museum, Moscow, done in Russian and English. 4) Book Review: Dr. Gesell's personal offprint copy of his 1937 review of Kohts' book in the "Journal of Genetic Psychology", no. 50, pp. 465-67; "Out of Russia comes a striking volume with an arresting title." Gesell notes Kohts' wealth of evidence for differences in communication skills and intellectual development between chimpanzees and humans; "The manifestation of emotion in pantomime is incomparably more prominent in the chimpanzee", while Kohts' son, Roody at age 1 is, "already engaged in spontaneous word building" (something the chimpanzee, Joni never demonstrated). Gesell notes also that Kohts was able to determine Joni was independently capable of 25 distinguishable sounds and that the reaction of the (young) chimpanzee and her (baby) son to seeing for the first time their mirror image was strikingly alike. 5) Clipping: of The New Yorker cartoon by Robert J. Day, showing researchers looking at infant chimpanzees and humans, the caption ending, "The Harvard entrance examinations will tell the story." In the 1930s, Day became "a master of the panoramic full-page gag in the New Yorker". [Yagoda] 6) Notations: Cartoon: "from New Yorker" added by Gesell / Contents: prologue crossed-out by Kohts / English Summary: Gesell added in pencil in margins, 5 comments and brackets and asterisks. CONDITION: Good, presentation bright, plates bright and clean, suite of photos with fine mounted plates, mount leaves bowed at fore-edge and with top corner bends. Letter: bright, tips with toning; mailing folds. / Envelope: soiling, toning, top edge fingering. / Offprint: creased corners, margin foxing, one page with large coffee stain, mostly below text. / Cartoon: toning and tip wear. Book Detail: / Pages: generally clean, front endpaper with bottom edge stains, flyleaf with fore-edge stain; title page with margin spot, pages 1-7, 481-513 and 575-96 with a light top corner stain; division sheet worn. / Covers: rubs, soiling, stains, 2 tiny ink spots; lower side bowed; spine with 5 puncture indents (4 tiny), crown with small frays and vertical tears and foot with slight fray. Gilt: s largely rubbed off letters. / Binding: reliable, needs to be handled with care, joint with closed tear. PAGINATION: Complete; 616 pages, text in four parts, Behavior of infant chimpanzee / Behavior of human child / Analysis of behavior of man and ape / English Summary; illustrated with 744 illustrations on 146 captioned plates, with b/w photo frontispiece, color portraits of Roody and Joni + 21 heavyweight leaves with 23 plates reproducing 138 figures, 19 plates printed on one side, 3 color, and one other plate with 9 of 18 reproductions in color, some plates reproducing excellent full-page drawings made under Kohts' supervision from observation or photographs + the renowned rear suite with its 604 b/w photo reproductions on 120 card plates. FORMAT: Publisher's dark moss cloth boards with beveled corners, letters on upper side stamped in gold and white, bound in the original binding sewn with taupe endpapers, reinforced with staples. SIZE: 262 x 180 mm. REFERENCE: Frans B.M. de Waal, A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. (He has also translated Kohts' work into English with the title, Infant Chimpanzee and Human Child.) Miles, Arnold Lucius Gesell; a biographical memoir, National Academy of Sciences. Kyun Hur, Nadezhda Ladygina-Kohts, Women in Science. ADDITIONAL IMAGES: by request.

DUNN, Bob[Promotional Prospectus]: Brassband Bixby New York: Press Alliance. [Circa 1935]. Folio. Measuring 17" x 22". Single sheet folded once to form four pages. Very good with creases from being folded, a scrape on the back cover and general wear. A large prospectus created to drum up interest in a new comic strip by Bob Dunn called Brassband Bixby. Dunn was a cartoonist and gag writer best known for his work on They'll Do It Every Time and Little Iodine, and winner of two National Cartoonists Society awards. This piece contains a dozen sample dailies along with Bixby himself praising the merits of the strip and asking interested editors to return the attached postcard to find out more. The strip appears to have followed the now missing postcard into oblivion with no mention of the character or strip anywhere online or in OCLC. Possibly a unique survivor. .

Fitzgerald, F. ScottTaps At Reveille Charles Scribner's Sons, NY 1935 - Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt. First edition, first state. Gilt titles are mildly rubbed, slight ridge to spine. Corners are faintly bumped, mildly rubbed. Binding is sound, book is square, one tiny spot to textblock edge else unmarked. The DJ in mylar is mildly toned at spine, with internal repairs of splits along gutter and to small tear to top rear panel, and rubbing along folds. Rear flap is priced at $2.50, and front flap has very faint sign of possible erasure to top. First state copy, with pages 349-352 uncancelled and p. 350 with "--he need not base himself." Housed in a fine custom clamshell box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Francis CARCOLa route du bagne Edition on current paper, it has been printed only 5 Holland paper and 20 in large vellum paper.Precious autograph dedication signed by the author to his friend the painter of Montmartre (Andre) Dignimont "my old friend André Dignimont remember the song Bat 'd'Af' / affectionately / Francis Carco."Spine slightly lightened by sun light without gravity. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! Ferenczi. Paris 1935 12x19cm broché

Shannon, Howard J.Crabs fighting 1935. 14 x 6 inches. Fine. 14 x 6 inches. Howard J. Shannon was a naturalist, author, and illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is well known for his book entitled Book of the Seashore (1935). This specific piece is paint on board of two blue crabs fighting under the water surrounded by other crustaceans and sea life. Shannon signed it in the bottom left corner. This drawing was then used in the popular children's magazine St. Nicholas: An Illustrated magazine for Young Folks Vol.32 in 1905. Shannon's work was also shown in exhibitions throughout New York such as at Pratt Institure in 1911, and at the Brooklyn Museum in 1935.

Patrick, Q. (Richard Wilson Webb and Mary Louise (White) Aswell)THE GRINDLE NIGHTMARE The Hartney Press, New York 1935 - Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-285 [286-288: blank], cloth. From the brief review in The Saturday Review, August 10, 1935 - "Murderous madman loose in New England valley kills animals and humans until young doctor traps him. Hereby awarded Malignancy Medal for 1935. More nasty people and unpleasant events you'll never find between two covers." A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, a vertical crease crease to the spine panel and some age darkening to the rear panel. An uncommon book in jacket. (20932) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Scrugham, James G. (editor)Nevada, A Narrative of the Conquest of a Frontier Land. Comprising the Story of Her People from the Dawn of History to the Present Time American Historical Society, Inc, Chicago and New York 1935 - Three volumes, uniformly bound in textured brown cloth (simulating leather) with embossed illustration of a western scene. Marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. I, 634 pp; Vol. II, 507 pp; Vol. III, 528 pp. Illustrations from photographs, portraits. All three volumes with very light rubbing to extremities, internally unmarked and sound, with minor foxing on just a few pages. Volume II (only) has minor water damage (rippling) to the top margin of the last third of the volume. Paher 1755: "A set of Scrugham is a valuable part of any Nevada library; it is in several ways the most desirable of the major state histories published." Includes many biographical sketches of prominent citizens as well as a solid survey of the pioneer era, political development, mining and industry, etc. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Monroe Calculating Machine CompanyFacts About the Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Inc., and its Products, Policies, Service." Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Orange, new Jersey 1935 - "Facts About the Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Inc., and its Products, Policies, Service." Orange, New Jersey; the Monroe Calculating Machine Company, 1935. 11x8", 133pp (mostly unpaginated), profusely illustrated, and printed on a heavy stock glossy paper. Bound in stiff wrappers, held together with three brass gathering tacks. Very nice copy. There are no copies located in the WorldCat/OCLC. Provenance: the Library of Congress, with their Surplus/Duplicate stamp on the back cover; also stamped with a received date of September 25, 1935. This copy is stamped #509. Seems as though something would pop up on WorldCat about it, but there wasn't one thing; also, there were only two hits for it in a Google search, one of which is a notice for when the work was copyrighted (1935). Also there must be quite a bit of clay in these pages because the publication is quite heavy for its size. $750 Contents: Monroe Factory (8pp), Monroe Instructions and Tables (2pp); Adding and Calculating Machines, a fine section with each machine on its own page (13pp); Prices for Adding Machines/ Calculators, (6pp); List of companies using Monroe calculators (4pp); National Advertisements, 4pp; Addition and Bookkeeping Machines, 18 models, each on its own page, (18pp); Specifications and Prices, (20pp); Monroe Listing Machine, Base Models, Tables of Comparative Prices and Features (long folding sheet with 26 entries); List of users (7pp); Letters of gratitude, (14pp); Articles on Salesmanship (12pp); Answers to objections that customers might have (12pp); Check-writing machines (12pp). [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Zirinsky, Julius; Cardozo, Benjamin NLithographed Portrait of Cardozo, Signed by Cardozo and Zirinsky. 1935 - Portrait of Cardozo, Signed by Cardozo and the Artist Zirinsky, Julius [1898-1970]. [Cardozo, Benjamin N. (1870-1938)]. [Portrait of Cardozo]. [Washington, DC? c.1935]. 24-1/4" x 19-1/2" black-and-white lithograph, image size 16-1/4" x 12-1/4," signed in ink by Cardozo and Zirinsky in pastel. Light toning, attractively mounted and double-matted. * Zirinsky was a notable New-York based artist. In the mid-1930s he traveled the United States to produce a series of portraits of living luminaries. His portrait of Albert Einstein, done in Princeton, New Jersey in 1935, is the best-known of these. Cardozo was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and near the end of his life when he sat for Zirinsky. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

O'Hara, JohnButterfield 8 (first printing in DJ) Harcourt Brace & Co., New York 1935 - Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935. New York. 310 pages. First edition, 1st printing in original DJ with $2.50 price intact on DJ flap. States First Edition on the copyright page and no further printings noted. The book is clean and tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Pages lay tight and undisturbed; seemingly unread. Black cloth maintains original black sheen with only minor soiling. Slightly rubbed gold titles along backstrip. Book shows a slight lean. The DJ shows multiple open chips. It remains in 1 piece and shows the original $2.50 price intact on the DJ flap. Despite the chips and some fading to the backstrip, the DJ remains a plum as there just are not many of these that survived. A most desirable DJ in any condition, let alone one with the price intact and free of repair. VG++/G [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

(Mexican Revolution). Armstrong, James H.THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. A 6-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. A first hand account of an attack on the village of Zimapan by "rebels" [Zapatistas]. Zimapan, Hidalgo, Mexico, August 7, 1935., 1935.. Very good. - sc - Six pages consisting of over 1,000 words penned on both sides of 3 sheets of 10-1/2 inch high by 8-1/8 inch wide buff-colored paper. In a lengthy letter James H. Armstrong, the author of this account, responds after reading a book which Mrs. McDougall has sent him. The book, Rosa E. King's "Tempest Over Mexico" which had just been published that year, has stirred up Armstrong's memories and feelings. He doesn't view the "rebels" (The Liberation Army of the South, known as the Zapatistas) with as much fondness "She rather idealizes Zapata, though strangely she makes no mention of his brother who accompanied him all the time, and glosses over the terrible cruelty of the Zapatists...." He goes on to describe, at length, an attack by the Zapatistas "When the town was attacked by the rebels for the first time, I had advance information from one of the rebel sympathizers who worked for us, so was not surprised when a group surrounded the town and demanded that the small garrison surrender or else the place would be taken by 'sangre y fuego' - 'blood and fire!' The town authorities decided to resist and the women and children of the principal families were gathered into the big house...." He goes on to describe that night and the "all-day attack" which followed until "through their scouts the rebels received word that a relief column was coming, so they retired and that unpleasant spell was over." Describing a subsequent attack, he writes of joining the "Jefe Politico, a very good friend" who'd organized a little band of volunteers to escort the women as they would all try to reach the next town. The group was overtaken and, to protect the women, surrendered to the Zapatistas. "As a foreigner, I was deputed to approach with a white flag and arrange terms. One of the women gave me her white petticoat to flaunt and up the hill I went...." Signed "Jas. H. Armstrong". The pages are folded once horizontally and twice vertically for mailing. There is some minor soiling with creasing to the right edge. Very good. <p>A very entertaining first hand account of an event during the Mexican Revolution.<p>The writer, James H. Armstrong was an American superintendent of the Hidalgo Copper Mining & Smelting Company in Zimapan, Hildago.

[Photo Album]: Nazi "R.A.D." Reich Labor Service: "Zur Erinnerung an Meine Dienftzeit" [The Memory of My Tour of Duty] Germany. 1940s. Small quarto. Measuring 7.5" x 10". String-tied gray cloth with a Nazi patch and swastika and "Zur Erinnerung an Meine Dienftzeit" stamped in silver on the front board. Contains 92 black and white or sepia toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2" x 2" and 4.5" x 6", with occasional captions in German. Near fine album with near fine photographs.A photo album compiled by a young German man while stationed with the Reich Labor Service, Reichsarbeitsdienst, or R.A.D., in Nazi Germany shortly before World War II. The Labor Service was the German equivalent of the American Civilian Conservation Corps. It was started in the summer of 1935 and continued through the war until 1945. The album begins with a portrait of the young man in full uniform complete with swastika armband and R.A.D. patches on either side of the photo. The R.A.D. logo is featured throughout the album and was often referred to as "the coffee bean." The barracks are shown with images of buildings, men playing with a dog, and men in full uniform posed at attention with shovels. One photo shows the men marching through the grounds giving the Nazi salute. Another shows a large group of men marching through a city with guns on their shoulders, a harbinger of days to come. The men are pictured repairing roads, laying rails, and moving stone. Two group photos show the men in track and field uniforms. The camp was visited by a higher ranking official seen here, who greeted the men and inspected their work and living quarters. During their leisure time the men can be seen exploring the nearby towns and swimming. One photo shows a group of men in their bathing shorts posed together lying in the grass.Once Germany declared war the R.A.D. recruits were considered Wehrmachtgefolge which translates to "Defence Force Following." They were considered an axillary unit but many were militarized. According to historian, Kiran Klaus Patel, "they were in charge of supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips." They were also involved in projects which involved coastal fortifications, laying minefields, manning fortifications, and guarding locations and prisoners.An interesting collection of photographs depicting a Nazi labor initiative and its increasing militarization in the years leading up to World War II. .

FORESTER, C. S.The African Queen Little, Brown and Co. Boston 1935 - First Edition. Classic African adventure novel of Charlie Allnut, who reluctantly agrees to help missionary Rose Sayer travel down river on a hazardous journey to destroy a German gun boat. Basis for the classic, 1951 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Bogart won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. Almost Near Fine, mild page wave (when looking down at top page edge), in Near Fine dustjacket, with tiny chip at lower mid rear spine edge. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

FORESTER, C S THE AFRICAN QUEEN Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. First edition, first printing with "Published February, 1935" on copyright page. Original tan textured boards with embossed jungle leaf design, banded and titled in green. Previous owner name on the blank fep and some glue spots remaining on the pastedown from a neatly removed bookplate, otherwise very good or better. Only light rubbing to spine ends. Firmly bound with a clean and bright interior.This novel was the basis for the legendary film of the same name directed by John Huston starring Humphrey Bogart with Katherine Hepburn. One of only 2,500 copies printed and quite scarce. . First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.